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Meng Zhining lay on the bed and watched Ming Yue sweep back and forth and said, "Why didn't you come back with Fang Yu." ”

Mingyue held a broom in her hand, swept the last bit of garbage into the dustpan and said, "There is something wrong with Fang Yu, I just went out with the prince." ”

Meng Zhining stuck out her tongue, both of them were very busy lords: "It's better to let General Yu do something, after all, he always has to help when he lives here." ”

Mingyue laughed: "Miss, don't say it, when you first offered the price, you said that it was eighty taels of silver a night." ”

That's right, she touched her nose, opened a ledger from her side, and began to check the month's expenses.

Thinking about it, it didn't feel right, but the cost was eight times more than last month.

Where is there so much spending?

She recalculated, many places are normal expenses, just today I boiled a pot of porridge for Yan Xiling and used an extra chicken, a chicken can't be so expensive.

The problem is not here, she pinched the account book and repeatedly checked the situation on both sides before discovering the problem, which is seven times more expenses, completely from the other courtyard.

Especially the Qixiang Pavilion and the Xuanlou on the side, the expenses are ridiculously high, and they have already spent a month's expenses of the palace before they arrive in a week.

"Call Steward Song to come here." Meng Zhining gasped and felt an ominous premonition.

The little guy next to him immediately invited Steward Song, and when he came, his brows were furrowed more than her, and he wrinkled into a ball.

"Princess." After saluting, Steward Song took the abacus in his hand and sighed and said, "This group of losers is actually more powerful than the losers in the capital." ”

"What the hell is going on?" Meng Zhining asked with the account book.

Steward Song frowned: "The woman over there in the other courtyard is really amazing, the silver is spent faster than the running water, and if there is no silver, it will be withdrawn from the inventory of the palace, and now there is nothing in the inventory." ”

She stammered, she didn't expect these people to be so powerful.

Zhao Di is a place far away from the emperor of the sky, and no one cares about it at all, so a phenomenon has been formed: the poor are very poor, and the rich are very rich.

Which of these women is not from a rich family? It's also normal to spend lavishly.

But in this way, spending the money in the mansion will make her a little painful.

And now she has calculated, if it continues like this, the palace must be poor, and now there are only about 1,000 taels of funds left in the mansion......

Up to a month.

Meng Zhining pursed her lips, the prince originally wanted to combine government and business in the same way as in the capital, but Zhao Di was too chaotic now, and he had little time to do this.

Don't let her do it yet.

She was a little unhappy.

Mingyue was cleaning up the things on the dresser, and a pile of jewelry was scattered on the table, and she carefully arranged them one by one, and when she picked up a hollow carved hairpin, she didn't feel right.

Why haven't you seen this hairpin?

Meng Zhining's hairpin generally has only two kinds, one is a phoenix hairpin, and the other is a plain hairpin without a pattern, and there has never been this kind of hairpin carved with a big red peony.

"Miss." Mingyue took the hairpin and showed her, "Is this yours?" ”

She hadn't seen the hairpin in Mingyue's hand at all, so she shook her head and said, "No, where did this hairpin Mingyue come from?" ”

She got up and got out of bed and took the hairpin in her hand, this style of hairpin seemed to be only available to Zhao Di, and she didn't sell anything in Zhao Di.

Where did that come from?

She frowned and thought for a while, only Shang Yuanjie had touched her dresser today.

She didn't take advantage of that time to stuff it in.

She seemed to have discovered something terrible.

Then it wasn't a good thing, she picked it up and put it in her sleeve.

After sending Steward Song away, she looked at the account book for a while, and saw Fang Yu coming in, and Meng Zhining pointed to the side; "Mingyue is over there, you can go find her yourself."

Bin Yu Dao; "Princess, the prince let you go."

Meng Zhining raised her head, rolled her eyes, stuffed a piece of mung bean cake into her mouth and said, "Okay, I'll come right away." ”

Sure enough, something entangled her, she stretched, tidied up a little, and took Mingyue over there.

She wondered what was going on.

Over there in Qixiang Pavilion, Meng Zhining was late with broken steps, and saw a woman sitting there crying.

What's going on? She raised an eyebrow.

Shang Yuanjie stood beside the woman and kept comforting her, and then glanced at Meng Zhining by the way.

Meng Zhining blinked her eyes and asked, "What happened?" ”

When the woman saw Meng Zhining coming, she saluted with red eyes and said, "I beg the princess to return the slave's things?" ”

"What's that?" She vaguely guessed what was going on.

The woman cried and said, "Sister Shang said that a carved peony hairpin of the slave family is here for you, this is a relic of the slave mother, and please return it to the princess." ”

Meng Zhining didn't laugh angrily, looked at Shang Yuanjie and said, "How did Miss Shang know that this thing is here?" ”

Shang Yuanjie had already prepared her words: "I looked at it in my sister's room this morning. ”

Exactly the same? It was clear that she was holding the hairpin and mixing it into her other jewelry.

Meng Zhining laughed twice, and her beautiful eyes looked at Yan Xiling and said, "The prince believes over there?" ”

Yan Xiling squinted her eyes and said, "You guys go on first." ”

Pouting, Meng Zhining said: "In this case, then the concubine can only say that there is no, Miss Shang, then you said that I almost don't go out of the door, how can there be such a thing?" ”

Unexpectedly, Yan Xiling was right to tell her not to go out.

Shang Yuanjie was confident: "The slave family saw the princess go to the kitchen with their own eyes today, and then hurriedly ran back to their room after a while. ”

She rolled her eyes in her heart, and glanced at Yan Xiling: "Miss Shang is very empty, can't this concubine go to send soup and water to the prince?" ”

"If you're not there, just search and you'll know." Yan Xiling opened her mouth and said, "This king has already asked Fang Yu to go to the princess's room, and she will be back soon." ”

Meng Zhining touched her cuffs, fortunately she put the thing in her sleeve pocket, otherwise she would be speechless if she found it, even if she didn't steal it, but there are many people here, more or less a few are on Shang Yuanjie's side, and the matchmaker can drown her with a word.

After a cup of tea, Fang Yu came back and said, "Lord, there is no so-called peony hairpin in the princess's room, but silver taels were found under the bed. ”

She was a little embarrassed, and at that time, she casually threw all the silver taels that she had exchanged for jewelry under the bed.

Yan Xiling looked at her, with a few big words written in her eyes: Don't run at night.

Shang Yuanjie almost rushed to say: "It must be the princess who took this hairpin to exchange for silver." ”

To be continued...

(It's been too good these days, and I've been pumping the demon knife Ji with a heart, so I've played too much qwq)

(To be continued.) )